Simone Leigh's art consists mainly of sculptures and installations. Her works always concern Black women, their history, and their experience and strength. She is from Chicago and based in New York.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has works by Duchamp ... when it was the Anti-Graffiti Network. Women bring that humility and vulnerability − but also an inner strength and power to the work ...

A remarkable painting was created toward the end of World War II: a 3-meter-wide canvas covered with images of working women. The painting was the work of an all-female team of painters formed in ...

During her time at UW, she was the first Black woman to live in Langdon Manor, a house devoted to a group of female artists. She switched her major from painting to writing ... collection focusing on ...